A freelance journalist has launched a service that will see him create photo-led "interactive stories" for news outlets.

Benji Lanyado, who created the Reddit Edit, a site which simplifies Reddit serving as a "feature generator" for journalists, has created a template that he can "build on top of" to make custom-made visual interactives.

"Around 99 per cent of news articles are the image with copy format," he said, adding that "articles can be playgrounds for design".

The visual interactives can be "hard-baked" into a news site "or embedded like a YouTube video", Lanyado said.

He added that this solution offers news outlets (and brands) a "simple and cheap way to do compelling and original content around images".
Benji Lanyado will be speaking about the Reddit Edit as part of the lightening round at news:rewired, Journalism.co.uk's digital journalism conference which takes place on 6 December. See this link for agenda and tickets.

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